Insight Guides This guidebook combines the interests and enthusiasms of two of the world"s best-known information providers: Insight Guides, who have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970, and Discovery Channel, the world"s premier source of non-fiction television programming. To this end, it brings you the best of the emirate of Dubai in a series of tailor-made itineraries, put together by Insight"s expert on the UAE, Matt Jones. It begins with a series of city-based itineraries exploring Dubai"s famous Creek, its souks, museums and beaches, and dipping into Dubai"s neighbouring emirate Sharjah, now almost a suburb of Dubai. The book then includes a series of excursions to places further afield, including Hatta, with its picturesque fort and hot springs, the wild and isolated beach at Dibba, a 4WD desert adventure and a journey through the northern emirates from Sharjah to Ajman and Umm al Qai wan, coastal backwaters that still display some of characteristics shared by all the...